Impressed
I was so impressed by this story that I went into the garden, found my spade and dug up some more clay. I cleaned and filtered it. Then rolled it flat. Using a basic tool, I dug the channels. I went for the rustic, amateur artist effect and succeeded.
After cooking it for five minutes at 1040 degrees Celsius it went from brown to golden orangey brown. My terracotta colour.
I tested and it works.
This maze story begun somewhere. Somewhere where someone was showing that an octopus or sea creature of that ilk was able to solve a maze. All by themselves. Upon seeing that, he thought to himself: “that is not such a great achievement as the producers of the show are trying to claim”.
The man in question went into his shed and glued some plastic pieces together to recreate a similar maze. He then poured water in at the start point and showed how the water was able to do two things.
The water found the solution. All by itself.
The water found the fastest, quickest, shortest solution. All by itself.
The man put some sand at the bottom of his little plastic maze. As the water flowed, it took some sand with it. That highlighted the solution. More and more sand departed leaving a trench. The trench sped up the flow. The solution plus the shortest route.
This is a micro demo of the will to form. The will to solve. The will to improve. Such will that needs not one ounce of intelligent guidance.
If you are one of the sad deluded types that believe that such things were set up in the first place by an omnipresent creature, then nothing I say will steer you in the right direction. However, if you are someone that wants to learn how things went from simple to less simple to ultra complex, this is a useful piece in the jigsaw.
To see the full picture, you need the right jigsaw pieces on your table. The necessary bits of understanding in your mind. You also need to remove all the wrong pieces from the table that obscure the truth.
2nd January 2026
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The ignorance paradox is not related in any way to the 'Dunning-Kruger Effect'
Aware/Unaware, Knowing/Not-knowing represents the ignorance paradox. It has nothing to do with over-confidence or cognitive bias relating to intelligence.
Whilst the first publication of the book (2003) was four years after the 'Dunning-Kruger Effect' came to pass, the term ignorance paradox was coined many years prior.